K-contact Lie groups of dimension five or greater

DOI10.2996/KMJ/1301576763MaRDI QIDQ534546zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Brendan Foreman

Publication date 18 May 2011

Published in Kodai Mathematical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.1531

zbMATH Keywords

central extensioncomplex Reeb vector fieldsymplectic Lie group

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special Riemannian manifolds (Einstein, Sasakian, etc.) (53C25) Global differential geometry of Lorentz manifolds, manifolds with indefinite metrics (53C50) Global theory of symplectic and contact manifolds (53D35) Contact manifolds (general theory) (53D10) Symplectic and contact topology in high or arbitrary dimension (57R17)

Abstract: We prove that a K-contact Lie group of dimension five or greater is the central extension of a symplectic Lie group by complexifying the Lie algebra and applying a result from complex contact geometry, namely, that, if the adjoint action of the complex Reeb vector field on a complex contact Lie algebra is diagonalizable, then it is trivial.

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